The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a Collection of Essays

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Contents

XI
49
XIII
54
XV
60
XVII
65
XIX
71
XXI
76
XXIII
83
XXV
90
XCIX
349
CI
358
CIII
365
CV
373
CVII
382
CIX
388
CXI
393
CXIII
397

XXVII
97
XXIX
104
XXXI
113
XXXIV
121
XXXVI
128
XXXVIII
131
XL
138
XLII
147
XLIV
153
XLVI
158
XLVIII
165
L
172
LII
178
LIV
184
LVI
195
LVIII
201
LX
207
LXII
213
LXIV
220
LXVI
225
LXVIII
230
LXX
237
LXXII
243
LXXIV
249
LXXVI
254
LXXVIII
259
LXXX
266
LXXXII
273
LXXXIV
282
LXXXVI
291
LXXXVIII
301
XC
309
XCII
318
XCV
329
XCVII
338
CXV
403
CXVII
409
CXIX
416
CXXI
422
CXXIII
429
CXXV
434
CXXVII
441
CXXIX
448
CXXXI
454
CXXXIII
461
CXXXV
466
CXXXVII
474
CXXXIX
483
CXLI
490
CXLIII
496
CXLV
503
CXLVII
508
CXLIX
513
CLI
522
CLIII
532
CLVI
538
CLVIII
545
CLX
552
CLXII
556
CLXIV
562
CLXVI
568
CLXVIII
574
CLXX
583
CLXXII
587
CLXXIV
595
CLXXVI
606
CLXXVIII
611
CLXXX
627
CLXXXII
639

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Page 29 - The united states in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Page 26 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 30 - And whereas, it hath pleased the great Governor of the World, to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify, the said Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union : KNOW YE, That we, the undersigned delegates, by virtue of the power and...
Page 27 - No State shall engage in any war without the consent of the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the United States in Congress assembled can be consulted...
Page 27 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument,' office or title of any kind whatever from any king prince or foreign state ; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant...
Page 30 - ... or military operations, as in their judgment require secresy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each State on any question shall be entered on the journal, when it is desired by any delegate ; and the delegates of a State, or any of them...
Page 363 - The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
Page 28 - ... defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive; the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned ; provided, that every commissioner» before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the State where...
Page 29 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall on the petition of either party to the congress of the united states, be finally determined as near as may be in the same manner as is before prescribed...
Page 30 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the united states, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union : but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.

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